How to pass arguments to a BackGroundWorker

Question

Imports SpeechLib

Public Class Form1
    Public vox = CreateObject(\"sapi.spvoice\")

    Private Sub cmdSpeak_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As Syste         


        

Answer 1

In cmdSpeak_Click, pass text2 as a parameter to RunWorkerAsync

BackgroundWorker1.RunWorkerAsync(text2)

In BackgroundWorker1_DoWork, retrieve the value of the parameter

vox.Speak(DirectCast(e.Argument, String), SpeechVoiceSpeakFlags.SVSFlagsAsync)